Category: archives
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Local budgets face a season of uncertainty
PACKET EDITORIAL, Feb. 5 By: Packet Editorial It’s local budget-preparation time in New Jersey, with municipal and school officials all across the state sharpening their pencils, donning their eyeshades and undertaking the tedious, line-by-line annual review and analysis of next year’s anticipated expenditures and revenues. It’s a thankless job, but an important one. When you…
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Freedom Rings
Artists in the Baltics resisted Russian oppression and expressed themselves under the threat of punishment. By: Jim Boyle It’s easy to take freedom of speech for granted in the United States. True, there have been certain forms of expression that cause so much anger, artists are forced to remove works of art and filmmakers forced…
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Jennie Carson
Jennie A. Carson, 82, died Friday, Feb. 1, at home. Born in Trenton, she lived in Lawrence 32 years. She retired from Princeton University Firestone Library in 1987 after 11 years as a bookbinder. She was a member of the Church of St. Ann and Princeton Getaway Club. Daughter of the late Antonio and Carolina…
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OBITUARIES, Feb. 5, 2002
Nelson G. Hightower, Dorothy Schmidt. Nelson G. Hightower Worked at Marriott hotel Nelson G. Hightower of Princeton died Thursday. He was 47. Born in Chatham, Va., he lived in Princeton for 20 years and was a longtime New Jersey resident. He attended Hopewell Valley and Trenton public schools. He was a manager in the audio…
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Helen Banks
Helen M. Banks, 90, died Saturday, Feb. 2, at Capital Health System at Mercer hospital, Trenton. Born in Trenton, she was a lifelong Lawrence resident. Mrs. Banks enjoyed gardening and walking. Daughter of the late Charles and Caro Mellia Valone Asay and wife of the late Carl W. Banks, she is survived by two cousins,…
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Finding Bliss
The Princeton Kadampa Meditation Group gathers at Murray Dodge Hall, Princeton University, Thursdays at 7 p.m. to focus inward and discuss Buddhist principles. By: Susan Van Dongen We live in a culture of conflict, where kindness is confused with weakness, and cheerfulness is mistaken for brain damage. I’ve never quite gotten used to it. So,…
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Freedom Rings
Artists in the Baltics resisted oppression and expressed themselves under the threat of punishment. By: Jim Boyle The Baltic region was heavily influenced by Western cultural trends. Above, "Listen to Me" by Peteris Smagins, 1958. It’s easy to take freedom of speech for granted in the United States. True, there have been certain forms of…
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Jane Rodney
She was co-director of the Breast Cancer Resource Center in Princeton. Jane Kurtz Rodney, 61, died Wednesday, Jan. 30, at home. Born in Detroit, Mrs. Rodney was a resident of Lawrence for the past 25 years. For the last 12 years she was the co-director of the Breast Cancer Resource Center in Princeton, an educational…
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Emma Salender
TRENTON Emma Rose Sheppard Salender, 92, died Saturday, Feb. 2, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Hamilton. Born in Lancaster, Pa., she was a longtime Trenton-area resident. Daughter of the late Lewis and Mary Schaeffer Sheppard, wife of the late Martin E. Salender Jr., mother of the late Clifford W. Thompson, Ruth Kelly…
